List of Portuguese ambassadors in Germany

The list of the Portuguese Ambassador to Germany lists the Ambassador of Portugal in Germany on. The two states have maintained diplomatic relations since the German Empire was founded in 1871. Before that, Portugal had representations in the predecessor state, the North German Confederation, and before that in individual German states, including envoys to German Hanseatic cities since 1641 .

Between 1974 and 1990 Portugal had an embassy in the West German FRG in Bonn and one in the East German GDR in East Berlin. After the end of the GDR in 1990, both embassies were merged in the Bonn embassy building, and the Portuguese embassy in Berlin has existed since the move in 1999 .

The Portuguese Embassy in Germany is located at Zimmerstrasse 56 in Berlin . There are also consulates general in Düsseldorf , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Osnabrück and Stuttgart .

Portuguese ambassador to the GDR

Diplomatic relations between Portugal and the German Democratic Republic began after the GDR was admitted to the UN in 1973. Relations only intensified after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and with it the end of the anti-communist authoritarian Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal. The first Portuguese ambassador to East Berlin began his work on September 4, 1974 .

Portuguese ambassador to Germany since 1868

Portuguese ambassador to Germany
Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Flag of the North German Confederation North German Confederation
Luis Vitorino de Noronha	March 25, 1868 –1869 (?)	Head of the Legation since March 24, 1868
Conde de Rilvas	1869 (?) –7. September 1871
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Conde de Rilvas	October 13, 1871 -31. August 1881	Legation in Berlin, Dresden and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , head of the legation since September 7, 1871
Marquês de Penafiel	August 31, 1881 -28. December 1891	Head of the Legation since August 31, 1881
Visconde da Torre Bella	December 29, 1891– January 12, 1892	Interim business representative
Izequiel da Fonseca de Sousa Prego	January 12 , 1892 - April 7, 1892	Interim business representative
Matias de Carvalho e Vasconcelos	April 7, 1892 - November 20, 1893	Head of the Legation since April 18, 1892
Vicente Pinheiro Machado de Melo e Almada (Visconde de Pindela)	December 23, 1893 - October 27, 1910
Antonio Dias e Sousa da Costa Cabral	July 15, 1910– September 16, 1912	Business Representative
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais	October 28, 1912– March 10, 1916	Head of the embassy since September 17, 1912
German Empire (Weimar Republic)
José Maria Lambertini Pinto	December 1, 1920– January 16, 1921	Head of the Legation since November 16, 1920
César de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches	January 16, 1921– July 19, 1921	Interim business representative
Francisco Manuel Couceiro da Costa	August 3 , 1921 - July 28, 1922	Head of the Legation since July 20, 1921
Alberto da Veiga Simoes	October 16, 1922 - November 7, 1924
Mario do Nascimento	November 14 , 1924 - July 6, 1924	Interim business representative
Joaquim Pedroso	July 7, 1925 - November 10, 1925	Business Representative
Amadeu Ferreira de Almeida Carvalho	November 12, 1925 - April 28, 1926	Business Representative
José Batalha de Freitas	May 11, 1926– May 16, 1928	Head of the Legation since April 29, 1926
Henrique da Guerra Quaresma Viana	May 16, 1928– August 24, 1928	Business Representative
António Maria Bartolomeu Ferreira	October 29, 1928– October 2, 1929	Head of the Legation since August 24, 1928
Antonio Dias e Sousa da Costa Cabral	January 14, 1930 - September 4, 1933	Head of the Legation since January 5, 1930
German Reich (Third Reich)
Alberto da Veiga Simoes	October 18, 1933 - August 21, 1940	head of the legation since September 4, 1933; second calling
Francisco Nobre Guedes	September 2, 1940– March 3, 1941	Head of the Legation since August 21, 1940
Pedro Tovar de Lemos	September 10, 1941 - April 14, 1945	Head of the Legation since June 21, 1941
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João de Barros Ferreira da Fonseca	January 11, 1951 - April 4, 1951	Head of the Legation with the Allies in Bad Godesberg since December 14, 1950
Manuel Farrajota Rocheta	May 3, 1956 - December 3, 1956	Head of the Legation in Bonn since February 17, 1956
Manuel Farrajota Rocheta	December 3, 1956 - March 3, 1958	on December 3, 1956, the Legation was accredited as an embassy
Luis Guilherme Vieir de Campos de Carvalho	April 3, 1958– February 25, 1959	Business Representative
Álvaro Brilhante Laborinho	March 16, 1959 - February 23, 1963	Head of the embassy since February 26, 1959
José Weinholtz de Bivar Brandeiro	April 1, 1963– January 16, 1964	Head of the embassy since March 24, 1963
Manuel da Cunha Pimentel Homem de Melo	April 29, 1964 - April 30, 1971	Head of the embassy since April 24, 1964, accredited as ambassador until May 20, 1971
Pedro Martim da Cunha Veiga Madeira de Andrade	April 30, 1971 - September 27, 1971	Business Representative
Joao Carlos Lopes Cardoso de Freitas Cruz	October 7, 1971– October 3, 1973	Head of the embassy since September 28, 1971
Vasco Luís Caldeira Coelho Futscher Pereira	November 14, 1973– June 25, 1974	Head of the embassy since October 18, 1973
Jorge Syder	June 25, 1974– February 25, 1975	Business Representative
Ernâni Rodrigues Lopes	March 12, 1975 - July 10, 1979	Head of the embassy since February 25, 1975
Manuel Lopes da Costa	July 10, 1979 - December 1, 1979	Business Representative
Heitor Manuel Prestes Maia e Silva	December 1, 1979 - February 16, 1980	Business Representative
Paulo Manuel Location David Ennes	February 28, 1980 - June 14, 1986	Head of the embassy since February 16, 1980
Fernando Manuel da Silva Marques	July 9, 1986 - July 12, 1990	Head of the embassy since June 14, 1986
António D'Oliveira Pinto da França	September 13, 1990 - April 2, 1995	Head of the embassy since September 10, 1990
Luís Martine Pazos Alonso	May 10, 1995 - April 25, 1999	Head of the embassy since April 5, 1995
João Diogo Correia Saraiva Nunes Barata	June 2, 1999– November 1, 2002	Head of the embassy since April 27, 1999
João de Vallera	November 3, 2002 - November 29, 2006
José Caetano de Campos Andrada da Costa Pereira	December 4, 2006 - February 25, 2012
Caetano Luis Pequito de Almeida Sampaio	April 13, 2012 - September 25, 2015	Head of the embassy since April 1, 2012
João Mira Gomes	November 30, 2015 - February 2020
Francisco Ribeiro de Menezes	since February 19, 2020